EDUCAUSE | Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences and K-12 Programs

Tomorrow's Students: Are We Ready for the New 21st-Century Learners?

drupal — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:33 -0500

The national Speak Up initiative annually collects and reports on the authentic, unfiltered viewpoints of K–12 students, teachers, parents, and school leaders about education technology and 21st-century learning environments. Learn about the expectations of today's K–12 students (the higher ed students of tomorrow) for technology use and their new aspirations for learning as uncovered in the most recent survey data.

Object-Oriented E-Education for PK-16 Students and Teachers

drupal — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 11:02:28 -0600

The "robust instructional object economy" implicit in SCORM has significantly influenced e-learning content and technologies. Presenters will discuss Marist College's end-to-end SCORM-compliant e-education environment for K-12, University of Wisconsin's IDEAS portal and learning objects for PK-16, and new learning experiences achieved with interactive SCORM-compliant multimedia objects tailored to the individual learner.

End-to-End E-Education Leverages Marist Technology for K-12 Schools

drupal — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:56:40 -0500

A product of partnerships between Marist, IBM, Cisco, and K-12 schools, Project Greystone is an inventive solution that enhances Marist's undergraduate student body with nontraditional e-learners from high schools. Greystone includes a rich-media delivery system, virtual laboratories, a shared tuition model, and TCO-reducing autonomic computing to bring credit-bearing e-courses to K-12 students.

Statewide Collaboration Moves Pre-K-12 Learning into 21st Century

drupal — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:30:00 -0500

The state of Iowa continues its strong commitment to ensure that all Iowa residents have equal access to educational resources. The latest effort is a collaboration of educational entities of all kinds to build a 21st-century learning infrastructure. Presenters will discuss the project and the challenges they faced.

Spreading the Wealth: University Partnership with Community K-12 Schools

drupal — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 10:32:25 -0600

Once a laptop program is in place on your campus, what do you do with used laptops students return? Wake Forest University, an IBM ThinkPad campus, began addressing this issue in 1998. This presentation describes our solution to the problem, including details of the new partnerships we formed in the community during this collaborative process.

Transformation of Education And ICT; An Example from the Netherlands

drupal — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 18:40:16 -0600

This paper gives an example from the Netherlands of how we are working on a transformation of education and how information and communication technology is facilitating this. The author works in the department of Teaching and Student Affairs of Hogeschool IJselland, University of Professional Education in Deventer in the Netherlands. Within this department he is involved in the role of information- and communication technology and library services in the educational process.

University of Delaware Library/Statewide K-12 Partnership Providing Online Resources and Training: UDLib/SEARCH

drupal — Tue, 19 Oct 1999 12:51:21 -0500

UDLib/SEARCH is a unique partnership between the University of Delaware Library and state K-12 education in Delaware. UDLib/SEARCH provides access to 16 full text databases via the Internet on the state network to all Delaware public high schools and middle schools, and training for teachers and librarians. Using $30 million in state funds, Delaware is the first state to wire every classroom in all public schools to the Internet, and UDLib/SEARCH is one of the first statewide applications on that network. This collaboration has served to further strengthen the partnership between the University, the state, and the education community.